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BEP(F.758.008
13 Feb 1758:21,22,31 (1172)
By an Act passed the last session of the great and General
Court, intitled, An Act in Addition to the several Acts of
this Province for regulating the Militia, it is enacted . .
. [military training and fines for neglect described] that
every person from the age of sixteen to sixty, not exempted
by law, shall appear with arms and ammunition according to
law, and attend his duty . . . [22, 1/4 way up from bottom
of col.: half of the non-commission officers be provided
with a bayonet and scabbard; 13 lines up from bottom of this
para.] And each non-commission officer and soldier
(drummers excepted) shall on every training day muster,
review, or alarm (after they are provided with bayonets as
aforesaid) appear with the same on the penalty of two
shillings for each neglect. . . [31, line 25] --It is also
further enacted, that all forfeitures arising by virtue of
this act, or any breach thereof, shall be recovered in the
way and manner as is provided by the act for regulating the
militia of this province, made and passed in the fourth and
fifty year of King William and Queen Mary, where in this act
it is not otherwise specifically provided, and shall be
disposed of one quarter part thereof to the prosecutor, and
the remainder by him to be paid into the town, district,
precinct or parish treasury, where the said company, or the
major part thereof, or captain of the troop belongs, to be
drawn out again by the captain or chief officer of the troop
or company whence such forfeiture arose, so far as shall be
necessary for procuring or repairing drums, trumpets,
colours and halberts, paying drummers, trumpeters, and for
procuring soldiers for his Majesty's service, and improved
for the benefit of such troop or company respectively,. . .
[2/3ds col. in all.]
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